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In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Arts and Entertainment She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Arts and Entertainment
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Arts and Entertainment
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Arts and Entertainment
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Arts and Entertainment The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Arts and Entertainment The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Arts and Entertainment "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Arts and Entertainment I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Arts and Entertainment
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Arts and Entertainment We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Arts and Entertainment "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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